DAVID T. ALEXANDER
About David T. Alexander
David T. Alexander is an established, award-winning Canadian painter best known for his landscapes and water reflection imagery.
Alexander studied at the Vancouver Art School and at Langara College before graduating with a BFA from Notre Dame University in Nelson, BC. In 1980, he moved to Saskatoon, SK to obtain his Master's degree while researching in New York, London, and Paris. In 2006, Alexander was a special guest artist-in-residence at the Morris Graves Foundation in California, and in 2018 he was inducted to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He continues to live and work out of his studio in Lake Country, BC.
from 291 Film Company
Landscape as Muse, Episode #440:
"The Rock to the Rockies with David Alexander"
Alexander's signature landscapes (dry series) and waterscapes (wet series) represent his significant fifty-year history in painting and drawing with a bold palette and gestural application. His work can be found in many prominent public, private, and corporate collections throughout the world, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Museum of London, the University of Toronto, Concordia University in Montreal, the Museum of Art in Iceland, HBC Global Art Collection in New York, and in Embassies in Berlin, Beijing and Krakow. Corporate and private collections include those in major Canadian cities as well as in Dubai, Seoul, New York, Mumbai and Nice, among others.
2025
Art and Antiques. Awestruck Wonder
2024
Evokation. David T. Alexander: Inscapes and the Persistence of Nature, Staci Golar
Looking and Seeing. David T. Alexander: My Head Remains in the Clouds as the Morning Starts, John O’Hern
David T. Alexander: Inscapes and the Persistence of Nature. exhibition catalogue
2022
Evokation. Infinite to Infinitesimal: David Alexander. Ashely M. Biggers
2021
Evokation. Artist Spotlight: David T. Alexander.
Foster/White. David Alexander: Artist Interview
2016
Booooooom. Artist Spotlight: David T. Alexander, Jeff Hamada
2013
Okanagan Artists in Their Studios, by Patricia Ainslie; Frontenac House, Calgary
2012
David Alexander: The Shape of Place, edited by Liz Wylie; Published for the Kelowna Art Gallery. McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal & Kingston, London, Ithaca
A Concise History of Canadian Painting 3rd edition, by Dennis Reid; Oxford University Press, Toronto
Art Inspired by the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains and Selkirk Mountains, 1809 – 2012, by Nancy Townshend; Bayeux Arts, Calgary
David T. Alexander: Drawn into Taos. Commentaries by David T. Alexander and Julian Oakes. Rich Fog Micro Publishing, Vernon, British Columbia, Canada.
Available Work
Emerald Spring Veins & Embroidered Collateral Skin Deep Water
Small work
Drawings
Archive: Sold
Arid Abreviations and Ridge Walks
Multicoloured Erosional Mountains
Shallows and Shadows
Tight into the Coastal Shallows
Kaloya Freeze Happening As I Observe
The Interface in Summer's Soup
Cliffs at Abiquiu
Slice of Water Time at Kaloya
Gravity Fed Reflections
Before the Avalanche Happens
Loops at Kaloya
Almost Arbitrary
